Wondering How big a market for 30-60MIPS? For end user, the higher the MIPS, the better for most of the case. Funny ----- Original Message ---- From: Xiaofan Chen To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:12:45 PM Subject: [PIC] PIC24 On the Radar Screen of Cortex M3 MCU Vendors Yesterday an ST STM32 (Coretx M3) guy from France visited us promoting STM32. I can clearly see that it beats the TI TMS470 we use right now in almost very aspect (lower current, single supply, 5V I/O tolerant, fast bit toggling, lower cost). Looks nice and it supports 105 degree C operation just like TMS470. The only thing unique to TMS470 is the HET High End Timer, kind of a coprocessor for waveform generator. Interestingly they also list PIC24 along with Renesas M16C and H8S for code density and speed comparison. Of course in their benchmark, STM32 beat all three. Interestingly PIC24 beats M16C and H8S by a big margin and lose not too much to STM32. The PIC24 is cheap, good performance (up to 40MIPS, lose out to STM32 -->up to 72MHz or 80MIPS??). Harold is asking for more performance from PIC24 or its successor. It is very interesting to see what is the response from Microchip. Rumor is that they will develop PIC32, a 32bit PIC. http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=291734 Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist